The Guga Stone - Study for The Guga-Stone 1
The Guga-Stone
1
When she sculpts and hones
the guga-stone,
she feels guided by her ancestors,
their lost skills stirring once more
in her bones,
Returning slowly to her,
each shift of wrist and finger
shown to her by them,
loaned from that distant source
from which her careful art had grown.
And so she completes her craftwork,
chiselling the folded wings,
plumage, head,
the cruel stillness of that eye
which despite the strong winds blowing
stays fixed in that position,
determining what shoals have swam
into its slaughter zone,
weighing up what segment of the catch
glinting on the cold horizon
it might claim for its own.
